The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together with Poetical Extracts Adapted for Recitation, and Dramatic Pieces for ExhibitionsA.S Barnes & Burr, 1864 - 524 páginas |
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... liberty and their slavery , must constantly prompt them to accomplish your destruction . Your enemies will learn the source and the cause of your weakness . As often as external dangers shall threaten , or internal commotions await you ...
... liberty and their slavery , must constantly prompt them to accomplish your destruction . Your enemies will learn the source and the cause of your weakness . As often as external dangers shall threaten , or internal commotions await you ...
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... liberty ! They bend from their starry thrones ! They beckon us ! Aye , and God is with us ! He will set his King upon his holy hill of Zion . To this do all the revolutions of the nations tend . " Thus saith the Lord God . Remove the ...
... liberty ! They bend from their starry thrones ! They beckon us ! Aye , and God is with us ! He will set his King upon his holy hill of Zion . To this do all the revolutions of the nations tend . " Thus saith the Lord God . Remove the ...
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... liberty which prevails here will sooner or later be diffused throughout the whole of the civilized world . Sir , can you lightly contemplate these consequences ? Can you yield yourself to the tyranny of passion , amid dan- gers which I ...
... liberty which prevails here will sooner or later be diffused throughout the whole of the civilized world . Sir , can you lightly contemplate these consequences ? Can you yield yourself to the tyranny of passion , amid dan- gers which I ...
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... liberty advanced ? has intelli- gence been diffused ? has morality grown purer ? has religion gained power ? has right been done ? has the state been ennobled ? has even a just stability of government been se- cured and established ...
... liberty advanced ? has intelli- gence been diffused ? has morality grown purer ? has religion gained power ? has right been done ? has the state been ennobled ? has even a just stability of government been se- cured and established ...
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... Liberty follows the sword , although her sway is one of peace and beneficence . Can you propagate slavery then by the sword ? You insist that you cannot submit to the freedom with which slavery is discussed in the free States . Will war ...
... Liberty follows the sword , although her sway is one of peace and beneficence . Can you propagate slavery then by the sword ? You insist that you cannot submit to the freedom with which slavery is discussed in the free States . Will war ...
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Términos y frases comunes
American arms army battle behold Biffin blessings blood bosom brave Brutus Cæsar Capt cause citizen civil Constitution Damon dare dead death Dingbatter Dion Dodd door Dred Scott duty earth fathers fear feel flag forever freedom friends give glorious glory Government Grif hand heard heart heaven honor hope human Joseph Holt king king of Dahomey labor land liberty live look Lord Lord Lovell ment mighty Mondamin nation never niggers noble North o'er Owen Lovejoy party patriotism peace political principles Procles Pyth Pythias rebellion Republic Reverdy Johnson Rome secession Senator shout slave slavery soldier soul South South Carolina Southern speak spirit stand stars stood sword tears tell Territories thee things Thomas A. R. Nelson Thor thou thousand tion traitors treason Union United voice Walter wave wrong
Pasajes populares
Página 248 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 336 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Página 422 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Página 338 - She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Página 259 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 205 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Página 338 - But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Página 415 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Página 84 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories and to overrun us here in these free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Página 255 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast Thou too again, stupendous Mountain! thou That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low In adoration, upward from thy base Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears, Solemnly seemest, like a vapoury cloud, To rise before me - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of incense, from the Earth!